Morneau later noted that he didn't grab a 12-pack for himself after the fire was out: "I like dark beer," he said...

...and I say this as one of those Oregonians who, prior to 1985 Brewpub Bill which also allowed non-pasteurized Coors to legally be sold here --- had more than once expressed amazement at just how good a can of Coors could taste---a can that had just spent maybe 30 hours in the trunk of somebody's car being smuggled in from Colorado...times, mercifully, have changed some...

I'll bet the mountains were not turning blue on THESE cans...Craig Morneau

Off-duty Houston firefighter Craig Moreau saw the truck burning on the side of a highway

He and the truck driver doused it with the beer being hauled in the burning big rig's trailer

beer. Captain Craig Moreau was off-duty returning from a weekend trip to Austin when he saw the burning 18-wheel truck on the side of a highway Monday and sprang into action to put out the blaze.

He initially tried to douse the fire with a small extinguisher, but that proved insufficient. That’s when he was forced to turn to the truck’s cargo – Coors Banquet Beer.

‘I crawled underneath and thought we'd got it out but it flared back up,’ Moreau told the Houston Chronicle. ‘So I said to the driver, 'what have you got in here?’

The driver told him the truck was hauling a load of beer. The pair soon started shaking and spraying cans of Rocky Mountain refreshment at the flames even as one of the tires exploded. The beer finally helped quell the fire, the truck was saved.

‘I have no doubt if the beer hadn't been there, the whole trailer would have burned up,’ Mr Moreau recalled. ‘A few more minutes down the road and it may not have worked.’

The semi’s brakes had just been fixed, Morneau remembered the driver telling him. "This was a unique experience,' he said, ‘It's in our nature to help folks, but this is the first time I've done it with beer,’ he told the paper. He later commented on his Facebook page that he didn’t snag a 12-pack for himself.